Former fighter pilot turned provincial schoolmistress Nadezhda Petrovna struggles to adapt to peacetime, having internalised military ideals of service and obedience.

Maya Bulgakova
as Nadezhda Petrukhina

Zhanna Bolotova
as Tanya Petrukhina

Pantelejmon Krymov
as Pavel Gavrilovich

Leonid Dyachkov
as Mitya Grachov

Vladimir Gorelov
as Igor, Tanya's husband

Yuri Medvedev
as Boris Grigoriyevich

Nikolay Grabbe
as Konstantin Mikhaylovich Shuvalov

Zhanna Aleksandrova
as Zina Yermolayeva

Sergey Nikonenko
as Sergey Bystryakov

Rimma Markova
as Shura